[Xymon] xymon-mailack

Tue Oct 2 21:41:24 CEST 2012

Does anything need restarting for procmail changes to take effect?

Ralph

On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Root, Paul <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>wrote:

> Well, the procmail setup can filter out mail bounces and such, and also
> parse to only accept mail from people in a given list.
>
> You could do that in your own script as well I suppose, but why reinvent
> the wheel.
>
> Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
> Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Novosielski, Ryan [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu]
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 2:04 PM
> > To: Root, Paul
> > Cc: 'Ray Reuter'; Jeremy Laidman; xymon at xymon.com
> > Subject: Re: [Xymon] xymon-mailack
> >
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> >
> > Is there any particular reason to use procmail at all, especially if
> > you don't use this e-mail address to receive any other type of mail? I
> > just use .forward.
> >
> > On 10/02/2012 03:02 PM, Root, Paul wrote:
> > > Do you have the procmail hooks in the postfix config files?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > If not, do you have your .forward setup to send stuff to procmail?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
> > >
> > > Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com] *Sent:* Tuesday,
> > > October 02, 2012 1:57 PM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman;
> > > Ryan Novosielski; xymon at xymon.com *Subject:* Re: [Xymon]
> > > xymon-mailack
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > The server is accepting emails, the /var/mail/xymon has all of the
> > > responses I have sent back via the alerts, but they never seem to
> > > make it to the.procmailrc script or the Mailbox and nothing is
> > > logging in the procmail.log.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Root, Paul
> > > <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > What's your procmail log file say.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
> > >
> > > Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012
> > > 11:47 AM *To:* Root, Paul *Cc:* Jeremy Laidman; Ryan Novosielski;
> > > xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com> *Subject:* Re: [Xymon]
> > > xymon-mailack
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > okay made a lot of progress now. It arrived at the server but
> > > never seems to either get parsed by the .procmail in the xymon home
> > > directory or not being processed correctly. Any ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: connect from
> > > domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
> > >
> > > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: 4F53752F9:
> > > client=domain.domin.com <http://domain.domin.com>[10.1.5.176]
> > >
> > > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/cleanup[31021]: 4F53752F9:
> > > message-
> > id=<DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com
> > >
> > >
> > <mailto:DC6ADFA346BED747BCA550CE3CAD9A5A12ACE3C867 at domain.domain.com>>
> > >
> > > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9:
> > > from=<Raymond.Reuter at domain.org
> > > <mailto:Raymond.Reuter at domain.org>>, size=1859, nrcpt=1 (queue
> > > active)
> > >
> > > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/smtpd[31084]: disconnect from
> > > domain.domain.com <http://domain.domain.com>[10.1.5.176]
> > >
> > > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/local[31089]: 4F53752F9:
> > > to=<xymon at domain.domain.com <mailto:xymon at domain.domain.com>>,
> > > relay=local, delay=0.02, delays=0/0.01/0/0.01, dsn=2.0.0,
> > > status=sent (delivered to mailbox)
> > >
> > > Oct  2 12:33:31 localhost postfix/qmgr[29282]: 4F53752F9: removed
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Root, Paul
> > > <Paul.Root at centurylink.com <mailto:Paul.Root at centurylink.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > That error is postfix tell you it can't deliver.  Did you edit
> > > /etc/postfix/main.cf <http://main.cf> and at least set the
> > > 'myhostname' variable to the fqdn for your host?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Paul Root    - Senior Engineer
> > >
> > > Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *From:*Ray Reuter [mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>] *Sent:* Tuesday, October 02, 2012
> > > 10:30 AM *To:* Jeremy Laidman *Cc:* Ryan Novosielski;
> > > xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>; Root, Paul *Subject:* Re:
> > > [Xymon] xymon-mailack
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Well we are getting closer. I am now able to telnet to the server.
> > > I tried to send mail to the server but kicked off every time i try
> > > to do the subject line.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > [root at xxxcacti2 ~]# telnet XXXXXXXX.xxx.com
> > > <http://XXXXXXXX.xxx.com> 25
> > >
> > > Trying 10.1.72.168...
> > >
> > > Connected to XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.xxx.com>
> > > (xx.xx.x.x).
> > >
> > > Escape character is '^]'.
> > >
> > > 220 XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXX.lvh.com> ESMTP Postfix
> > >
> > > helo XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXXXXX.lvh.com>
> > >
> > > 250 XXXXXXX.lvh.com <http://XXXXXXX.lvh.com>
> > >
> > > MAIL FROM: raymond.reuter at xxx.com <mailto:raymond.reuter at xxx.com>
> > >
> > > 250 2.1.0 Ok
> > >
> > > RCPT TO: xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com <mailto:xymon at xxxxxxx.xxx.com>
> > >
> > > 250 2.1.5 Ok
> > >
> > > "SUBJECT: Xymon"
> > >
> > > 221 2.7.0 Error: I can break rules, too. Goodbye.
> > >
> > > Connection closed by foreign host.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have the .procmailrc file set up as per the xymon man page, still
> > > not sure if the "Mailbox" is a directory or file. and the
> > > directory structure of the xymon home directory looks like this.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > drwxr-xr-x.  2 xymon xymon  4096 Oct  2 11:02 Mailbox
> > >
> > > -rw-r--r--.  1 xymon xymon     0 Oct  1 12:15 procmail.log
> > >
> > > -rwxr-xr-x.  1 xymon xymon   124 Oct  2 11:04 .procmailrc
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > This feature is one of the most important to the company I work for
> > > and have been trying to get it to work for a couple of days now. We
> > > even added an MX record for the server so mail can be delivered to
> > > it directly. Telnet works locally and remote.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated, you have all been
> > > a huge help so far and this monitoring tool has done wonders for
> > > this company.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Jeremy Laidman
> > > <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au <mailto:jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > On 2 October 2012 02:46, Ray Reuter <ray.reuter at gmail.com
> > > <mailto:ray.reuter at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > > I am using Centos 6.2
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > By default Centos (aka Red Hat) v6 boxes run postfix (rather than
> > > Sendmail).
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > During my install I do not remember installing anything as the
> > > mail transport, but the alerting was working right out of the box
> > > from day one.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Initially, postfix is configured so it won't accept SMTP
> > > connections from off the box.  So outbound emails will get sent OK,
> > > but incoming emails will not get delivered to the Xymon server.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Test this by attempting to telnet to the Xymon server on port 25
> > > from another device, such as a Windows PC, with "telnet
> > > xymon.server.name <http://xymon.server.name> 25".  If you get a
> > > "connection refused" or similar message, than you need to
> > > reconfigure Postfix to accept remote connections.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I followed the man page for the mailack and created everything as
> > > per the instructions, but I am not even sure the mail is reaching
> > > the server at this point.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Probably not.  Have a look at the "STANDARD_CONFIGURATION_README"
> > > file that came with Postfix for instructions on setting things up,
> > > particularly the "Postfix on a local network" section.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > J
> > >
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> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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